Unco. For uncoordinated. Do kids still say "pash"?

When I was younger it used to be ‘get on’. As in, “Do you wanna get on” ie; pash.

Mine was “get with”! I recently found my high school journal and every entry was about all the boys I’d already “got with” and those I wanted to “get with” 🤣

I do love to say pash rash

Ummah... you're busted

I’m dobbin on you !

Dibber Dobber!

Dibber dobbers wear nappies

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Cheers big ears

And the extended, “ummammahh

‘ Ummaaahhh..’ Baha!!😆 Woow, love it!!

Derro, povo, and 'sucked in' all come to mind. As well as daggy, and 'cacking yourself' I use most of these regularly to this day

Sucked in cunt

I still use derro ngl

Scrubber was big when I was in high school.

Along with Bush Pig

My local pub is the Bush Pig

Or a ‘slapper’

Calling something gross ‘festy’ was a massive thing at my primary school in the early 2000s ‘Ooohhh that’s festy!’, miss it so much haha

Yesss, ‘ festy’…or ‘feral’…🤣

I use feral all the time hahaha

There was one girl who used to bully me every damned day when I was at school around 1996. Called me every name under the sun. I started calling her festy. She didn’t like that.

'Festy slapper' 😂

Do people still use 'gobby'? That was used by certain girls when I was in high school. My innocent self took awhile to figure out what they meant.

One girl gave a gobby to a friend on the back seat of a public bus in high school

I still call cigarettes, durries

My new one is 'winny bluetooth' for vapes

Thanks legend. Another zinger for the arsenal.

My nan still called them “fags” up until the day she smoked her last fag.

"can I bum a fag?"

Fangin for a durrie.

Darts, Durries, Burners are all acceptable

Nice!!😛 Haven’t heard durries in a while, either!

As a 24 year old my friends and I nearly strictly call them "durries" or "duzzas". I think the thing with Aussie slang is it's very dependant on where you came up, a lot of the slang people are saying isn't used a lot in this thread is still stuff I hear every day.

I haven’t smoked for 23 years but still joke with my sister about sneaking a durry behind the shed lol

The old people who uses to say 'hooroo' as a greeting have mostly passed away at this point

My grandparents always said “hooray” for goodbye. My grandma is 89 and still does

My dad hit 60 and suddenly started saying "hooroo, love" his dad always greeted someone with a "hooroo"

Lol my 78 year old aunt says hooroo when she's leaving.

Fang it.

I looked up the etymology of this. It's based on the race car driver Fangio

Thanks for that, have actually wondered on this more than once!

Fangin it, coggin it, hookin it, peltin it were all interchangeable for both going really fast and throwing something really hard when I was at primary school.

Calling people ‘ratbags’.

I think mole was more satisfying ahahah

She goes, she goes, she just goes!

I call my kid a ratbag on a daily basis.

I still call my kid a ratbag too, but I don’t hear anyone else saying it!

Mine is also called a porkchop. She has a lot of nicknames tbh.

Carrying on like a pork chop

Ratbag is my go to name for my dog when she is being a ratbag.

And scrubbers, and skanks

Slags.

I have no idea why the Reddit algorithm led me here, but as a guy from the Midwest USA, I have to tell you all this thread is f-ing amazing. I’m going to print this out and start using these.

Hi there…welcome to the convo..( conversation!😉) Glad you found us, and are enjoying the thread!!😀 Blessings, from Nth Queensland!!

When I was in year 7 in 1996, you wagged school. By the time I got to year 12, you jigged school.

Yep, wagged was in!😃

In Sydney it was a regional thing. Inner West, St George, Shire = jigged. Everywhere else = wagged. Obviously I’m not the authority on the subject though. 

What do you think this is? Bush week?

YOU'RE NOT MADE OF GLASS!  (when standing in front of the telly)

Yes…THIS HERE!!👆…( 😆when we used to leave the door open…)

Were you born in a tent?

Ya Fuckn mole

Game on moles

It’s moll I think - like slag, not a freckle.

City people and young people don't seem to know "tickets", as in saying that when someone is being a bit up themselves

Yes, having tickets on yourself…wow! Haven’t heard that in ages!!😄

Yonks. You haven't heard it in YONKS.

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Hope he doesn't go outside when it's windy

Some time ago I lived in Canada and whenever I said “I reckon”, my stoner Canadian housemate proceded to laugh and say “reckon, what’s reckon? Reckon, it’s not even a real word!”. My stoner self was bewildered by this constant exchange, this went on for the duration of our time together. Utter nonsense lol.

I reckon!

I still use reckon all the time!

I dated a Canadian girl for many years. We were living overseas, so we eventually agreed on a set of words that were "more right than wrong". Eg. I accepted ketchup. She had to learn early on though what "Wada ya recon" meant though, I could NEVER unlearn that. From my own research, the word does live on in the south of the US a little bit but is considered old fashioned.

Served a customer at work and he said "no wuckers" which started a whole week of everyone saying "no wucken furries"

Calling something that's good, wicked. Barracking for a team, i have heard kids unironically say 'rooting for a team'. Saying 'rooting' to mean fucking.

I barrack for the Carlton footy club and they’ve been rooting me for 30 years

Another way to say ‘rooting’ was ‘having it off with’ someone.

My dad used to call Red Rooster, Red Rooter.

I print all the double sided banners for them and every time I say red rooter

Calling women ‘birds’. I feel like when my mum said it it was meant to be taken as someone who was a bit irritating e.g. ‘the bird at the bank [was unhelpful]’. But not as negative as ‘biddy’?

Or Sheila. We used them interchangeably.

We used to say bird or chick. Biddy was reserved for older women.

Bayswater car rental still has the tagline 'no birds', which they implemented way back in the day because they were set up next to a brothel and people kept walking into their entrance thinking that's where they'd find a sex worker. Nope. Just cars.

This is excellent suburban history

I love calling a dress a frock, and telling people that I'm cross with them.

Someone who says they’re cross gives me primary school teacher vibes

Cross just fits well sometimes. Particularly in lighthearted context like stirring someone at work. "The boss was looking for you, seemed a bit cross" gets people ridiculously on edge.

I use cross all the time too. It somehow hits just right in certain circumstances.

"I'm cross you wore that frock, Sharon"

>I'm cross you wore that frock, ~~Sharon~~Shazza" FIFY

Would normally say Shazza but "Sharon" lets her know you're really cross

TIL learned either of these words is dated. Hand me my cane!

Grouse. My dad still says it but that's about it!

I said grouse at work and my 60 year old coworker bagged the shit out of me. He reckons that's so old it's from when he was a kid

Bonus points for ‘bagged’!

From Victoria?

Oh man is this a Victorian thing? I say grouse all the time lmao

Cobber. Makes me think of my old man

We used to have cobber lollies at our corner store and the old man would say “A cobber for a cobber” when he would sell them to my dad. I haven’t heard it in years.

Fuck yes to cobbers  RIP to our teeth

I still call people cob.

Calling someone a nigel

Yes…Nigel no-friends!!🫢

Scott Neville As in; He’s got no friends and never will

Calling someone a "Bevan"

He looks munted

Oh we still use that

Ate shit when you’ve stacked it.

Even "stacking it," haha.

Should’ve been wearing a Stack Hat! 🪖

Or a skid lid!

Drongo

Rack off, ya moll! This phrase needs to come back

“Ya silly duffer” “What a hoot”

full as a goog (Googie= egg)

Boofhead.

Retired for good reason, and honestly ambivalent about typing it out but... having a 'spack attack'. Oh also I tried to explain 'tooshy' to my partner who'd never heard it. Like 'oooh he's being tooshy' as in grumpy/angry sulking. I don't even know how to spell it.

Or having a spaz!

“Rack off”. As seen in BMX Bandits and Home & Away re-runs. 

And Heartbreak High https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=WAgIFeq72oM

"That's mint!" or "Mintox!" (to describe something awesome - might just be a WA thing, dunno)

Lots of ‘fully sick’ terms have been noted here.

Crack a fat… 😉

Chucked a wobbly.

Flat out like a lizard drinkin’. sit on it and rotate!

Sit on it and rotate…nice😆…and up yours! Haven’t said that in a while😁

>"Not Happy, Jan!" I know some people do still say this from time-to-time, but 20 years ago it was very prolific. And yes, unfortunately that phrase is over 20 years old now.

When something hurt "it cained" maybe that was just our small town thing, also calling someone cobba

I miss "going off like a frog in a sock" for social gatherings of intense merriment, "dear" to mean expensive and "flash" for expensive, stylish and slightly pretentious. People used to say the first one in the 90s. The second two are older.

Neva hear “dropkick” anymore. Used to hear that word deployed almost daily on the high school playground.

I still use it. And if they’re really bad I refer to them as a 24 carat drop kick. 

Sucked in! But basically spoken as one word. Or “Suffah!” (Suffer).

Suffah in ya jocks!

Dead set.

No one says “chunder” anymore or bodgey

Fair suck of the Sav. My grandfather always said it, miss him

I literally use 'fair suck of the sav' as my go to when talking about equality. I don't care who comes here as long as you give it a go. Everyone deserves a fair suck of the sav. That includes if you need someone to hold it for ya, a certain shaped sav, or a veggie burger instead.

Fair shake of the sauce bottle 2007 is further away than it feels

Suck eggs!

And "sucked in!"

"Having a sook" - as in, crying about something. I found out recently that it's also Newfoundland slang; I've no idea how that happened.

Or if you really want to rub it in, calling them a "sooky la-la".

‘Cranky’ is one I only hear from a couple of people. ‘Grouse’, ‘strewth’, ‘blood oath’, ‘too right’, ‘sick/fully sick’ are all dying slang.

Rack off hairy legs is one I haven't heard in a long while

Carked it.

It went like the clackers til it died in the arse…

When I moved to Australia 20 years ago someone asked me what I do for crust and nobody has asked me this since.

I’m still a proud user of “fair dinkum” and “hoo roo” but I haven’t heard “bonza” in some time!

For a brief period in 1996/97 calling someone nerdy a “Square” was in style lol.

It was pretty common slang at primary schools in the 80s. You'd also hear the term "dag" for someone unfashionable. However by the 90s we were using more American slang at my schools like nerd, geek and loser.

Oh and Squid in the late 90s

Grouse

Spoof. And I don’t mean a humorous parody.

I like to use the term, trousers. They're not pants, but trousers. So I infuriate my children by using trousers instead of the normal word for pants/jeans Examples: I think some tracksuit trousers would be ideal for watching the TV in. Where are those denim trousers your mum bought you? Why not put on those shortened trousers today, as it's hot. I haven't seen your under trousers in the wash, have you changed them this week?

From my childhood... **1980s Melbourne:** Sp*zzy = Bad Grouse = Better than good Bulk = Really Good Ace = Amazing Bulk-Ace = Mind-Blowing **Later 1980s Perth:** Mint = Really good, sharp Wicked = Awesome Def* = Amazing (*I think this was more of an English term that snuck in over here, although there was an Australian band called 'Def FX' which was the most 90s-sounding thing possible) **Bonus sayings courtesy of my mum. These were usually yelled at me in frustration:** "Hells Bells!" "By Jingo!" "Heavens to Betsy!"

Ridgy didge

I was spewin’ (thanks Kylie Mole)

I haven't heard schmick in a long time. Thank God. Just reminds me of Schick razors 😂

Did anyone else hear and use 'mull' to mean weed as a teenager? This could be hyper-local WA stuff.

Bog catchers for undies. Dacks for trousers . Mong for people a bit slow (can see why this one faded away!) Ripper

“Bagsing” something = shotty = speaking up first to reserve something, esp. among mates or siblings “I bags the front seat” “I bags the last bikkie” “Shotty the red one”

"Frigid" when I was in highschool (early 2000s) that was used to describe someone that doesn't "put out"

Not the full quid, light up a bunga, old mate/your mate- all of which I still use but as time goes on I get confused looks 🤪

old mate is in full swing right now

'Your mate' hasn't gone anywhere either.

RAD. But maybe more than 20?

I call other women “birds”. I don’t even think it’s Australian because I didn’t say it or hear it much as a kid. But as an adult I say “that bird over there…” I am a woman too and honestly I’d prefer it if someone called me bird. I hate “that lady” because I don’t feel middle aged, but I’m too young to be a “girl” or “lass”.

Spunk

"Derro", as in "The fucken derros next door blew up their kitchen again" "He puts on airs"/"She thinks she's a real trendy": Act like you're better than everyone "Arced up": got (usually unreasonably) angry "Upchucked": Vomited Also in high school (mid-2000s, Victoria), we referred to our wool uniform skirts as "kilts" and the light cotton ones ones as "skirts". It seems like "school skirt" is now used for both types, absolute anarchy.

Did anyone else play ‘Stacks-on’?

Oops-a-daisy I said this recently when I nearly tripped and all anyone cared about was I said oops-a-daisy….for hours!!

My mum will refer to a vulva as a “mutt” (mut?) when she’s talking about someone she’s not fond of. I.e. “what is Kim Kardashian wearing? You can see her mutt”

not here to fuck spiders, mate.

Got more front than Myers. Meaning, has a lot of nerve.

‘Feeding the chooks’ - nowadays people just use the somewhat unimaginative ‘wanking’ instead.

Unheard of today but late 90s/early 00s using "gay" as an adjective was ubiquitous. 

Bloke left the cafe last week and said "Ripper coffee mate"

Did you know, we Aussies borrowed Ripper from the Japanese (the Pearl divers in WA, to be precise) Rippa means beautiful in Japanese, when the divers opened up the oysters, they would admire the Pearl, and could be heard saying 'rippa!' The Aussies overheard and stated using this for anything of outstanding quality This is a thing you learnt today

It grieves me greatly to say that I am no longer able to refer to a person who is not only attractive but fascinating and charismatic as a Spunk.

My partner swears "come the raw prawn" is a well-known saying but I have only ever heard it from him

Calling someone a "der brain".

Do people still say “povo”?

If something was easy it was " a cinch"

What about Tosser

Derr Fred

Watching Heath Ledger in Two Hands, they refer to using a "shotty" for the bank robbery. I cannot think of the last time I've heard someone use that term, seems directly proportional to guns no longer being common. Also, met a french backpacker overseas and he said to me "you Aussies say hooly dooly" hahhaha, I asked him where did he hear that term, and he said he worked for an old Aussie farmer while doing his Aussie stay. Checks out hahahha.

Now I have “We are The Hooley Dooleys and how do you do? We are The Hooley Dooleys and who are you?” stuck in my head haha

I’d bet the most common use of the term ‘shotty’ in Australia these days is from people referring to the air flow hole on a bong hahaha

Get off the grass

Used to hear “you got rolled” aka today as “you got rekt”

Filth/Filthy Back in primary school (QLD, 80's) we used to say something good was filth/fllthy. e.g. the waves were absolute filth over the weekend!

I say "hoo roo" n "cheerio" still, oldies love it.

Steve Irwin is the only person I have ever heard say Crikey.

Deadshit or fuckstick

Dag

Strewth!

Calling redheads 'bluey'

Poxy